The man who on Monday evening injured four people, two of them seriously, with a stab wound in a Lidl supermarket in Jeumont (North) is a Moroccan citizen in a regular situation, unknown to the police and with a schizophrenic profile, is been denounced. learned Tuesday from a police source.
Medicines were found at his home, according to a source familiar with the matter. A source close to the investigation said he was still hospitalized after attempting to slit his throat and wrists with one of his weapons.
“No religious demonstrations”
While his motives remain unknown, “there was never a religious outcry” on his part, the police source said.
The events took place in the early evening, when the man entered the Lidl store equipped with a helicopter and two knives, before attacking customers, another police source reported on Monday. There were about ten people in the shop.
According to the source close to the investigation, the attacker first hits a client on the head, injuring another in the hand. He then goes after another customer, who also hits him on the head.
A man then throws bottles of champagne at the attacker, who falls, according to the same source. He then escapes through an emergency exit, before slitting his wrists and neck, he continued.
“Let me die”
“Let me die”, he says to a policeman who discovers him hiding behind a low wall and discovers that he is seriously injured. Firefighters said on Monday evening that two seriously injured victims had been transported to hospital in Valenciennes. Their days are not in danger. The perpetrator was airlifted to the university hospital in Lille.
According to the source close to the investigation, two other victims went to Maubeuge hospital: one was shot in the head, the other lost her ring finger and her middle finger was severed.
“When the police arrived there was blood everywhere,” Arnaud Beauquel, Jeumont’s first deputy mayor, said on Monday evening.
Among the witnesses there are “families accompanied by children,” he continued. The prosecutor of Avesnes-sur-Helpe, Laurent Dumaine, must publish a press release at the end of the afternoon.
